Thanks to everyone participating in the 2017 Summer Research Institute at UCSC for a really fun session on protein crystallography. This year's team featured twelve students in six teams: Team Molecool, Zoboomafoo!, Caution! Covfefe, Naje Wolfgang, Costco Pizza, and Vipers. We discussed protein structure and x-ray crystallography, and then designed a screen to optimize Proteinase K crystals. Shown above, Natalia Ubilia is looping one of Team Molecool's ProK crystals and free

Congrats to our friend Luis Larrondo of the P. Catholic University of Chile for receiving Aschoff's Rule(r) at the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Chronobiology from its past holder, Katja Lamia of The Scripps Research Institute. Luis studies circadian rhythms and synthetic biology in the fungal model system of Neurospora crassa. This is one of the highest honors in the field of circadian biology -- the name refers to the actual award, the ruler of Jurgen Aschoff, one of t